Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the CPD discontinues the "Cops in Shops" program. If nothing else, it is excessively hostile to Harvard students, the likely victims of such sting operations. The CPD should devote its resources to keeping the streets safe for all Cantabrigians. The underhanded "Cops in Shops" program devotes too much effort toward putting predominantly decent kids in jail for trying to buy booze. The recent implementation of the "Cops in Shops" program at various liquor stores in Cambridge disappoints and angers us greatly...
...Chair Colleen T. Gaard '99, also a Crimson editor, cooperated to arrange last night's panel in an effort to bring those issues before a larger audience...
...warming seriously and doing something about it are two very different propositions. The nations gathered in Kyoto are split into several factions, each pushing a different plan to deal with impending climate change, and each--despite a spate of preconference workshops held during the past few months in an effort to narrow the differences--sticking to its guns. "I'm confident that some kind of agreement will be worked out in Kyoto," says Toshiaki Tanabe, Japan's ambassador for global environmental affairs. But there is every likelihood, in fact, that the U.N.-sponsored conference will accomplish nothing substantive...
...deep-buried oil deposit that once was an inland sea. He meets a beautiful young woman, takes her, literally, in his airplane while scouting for oil, and sorrows that he doesn't have the knack of falling in love with her. The journey of the tale is his effort to teach himself, like a man learning Norwegian, to do this...
What's more, it is oddly similar to a very different playwright's latest failure. Neil Simon's Proposals--the comic kingpin's first Broadway effort since Laughter on the 23rd Floor in 1993--is, like The Old Neighborhood, a memory play that doesn't add up to much. Guided by the family's (now dead) housekeeper, we are taken back to the Poconos in the 1950s, on a summer weekend when several characters encounter a new love or are reunited with an old one. It would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch...